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    Amulet (redirect from Good-luck charm)
    Amulets refer to any object which has the power to avert evil influences or ill luck. An amulet is an object that is generally worn for protection and made...
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    Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912...
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    the diamond's supposed "ill luck" prompted a worried editor of The Jewelers' Circular-Weekly to write: No mention of any ill luck having befallen Eliason...
    91 KB (11,181 words) - 18:10, 10 April 2024
  • fortuitous?'), also known as Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows? or Bad luck brings good luck, and good luck brings bad luck are some of the many titles given...
    15 KB (1,514 words) - 18:57, 7 May 2024
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    also to the old popular superstition in Great Britain and Ireland that ill luck attended the uprooting of hawthorns. Branches of Glastonbury thorn (C. monogyna...
    36 KB (3,827 words) - 17:22, 28 May 2024
  • The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by English author William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844...
    25 KB (3,461 words) - 02:17, 26 May 2024
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    in enmity. She notes that whatever he had done would have brought him ill luck. To his response that she cannot harm him, she delivers a series of warnings...
    27 KB (3,390 words) - 05:12, 8 May 2024
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    according to Snorri Sturluson, with ósgæssa, "ill-luck". He was the son of Visbur. The luck of the king is the luck of the land, and Domalde's rule was marked...
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    ancient Java. Sri Lankan history notes that brides wore armlets to ward off ill luck. However, the armlet can be more eye-catching when it is made of gold or...
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    Jupiter Nundinarius and Mercury Nundinator. Superstitions arose about the ill luck when a nundinae would fall upon January 1st or the nones of any month and...
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    Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity. Apress. ISBN 1-59059-389-8. Spolsky,...
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    full moons have set and ceased to shine In one short week through this ill-luck of mine. Khusrau's homage to his mother on her death was: Where ever the...
    42 KB (4,574 words) - 06:54, 30 May 2024
  • claims that Gitanjali is mangalik and must marry a tree first to defuse any ill luck. Gitanjali agrees but Nikhil freaks out when she tells him. He reasons...
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    there is a long tradition of using them as amulets for good luck, banishment of ill luck or to ease childbirth. Guilandina bonduc seeds in Krishna Wildlife...
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  • "uplifting and life affirming because the message is taught through adversity, ill luck and fighting for survival". David Browne, writing in Entertainment Weekly...
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    from seals, and it was taboo for them to kill the animals lest it bring ill luck. And since conneely became a moniker of the animal, many changed their...
    41 KB (4,931 words) - 20:05, 28 May 2024
  • Company A pair of derelicts swap stories of woe and ill luck, concluding that for some, bad luck is just fate. "Transition I" – Woman 1 "Stars and the...
    12 KB (1,601 words) - 02:16, 25 May 2024
  • for Gentlemen-Jockeys The Wish to be a Red Indian Unhappiness Bachelor's Ill Luck Unmasking a Confidence Trickster The Sudden Walk Resolutions A Dream Up...
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  • having an attack of diarrhea is not enough, she can hardly believe her ill luck as she spots Celine in the distance, until the latter notices her too....
    89 KB (92 words) - 20:24, 2 September 2023
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    Vishnu Vishal, Pia Bajpiee, Vivek Siddharth Chandrasekhar A man who faces ill luck approaches a gangster to murder him, the gangster who is surprised by his...
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